Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout and even appreciation for their

and even appreciation for their having been freed from German domination

first raised in 1685 as the Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Horse

with two clasped hands below

This version is called a "bale top" because or the metal bar that keeps it closed

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout and even appreciation for theirOriginal item. Only One Available. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptional brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the Sudan